Harald Reiner Gratz

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Harald Reiner Gratz

Harald Reiner Gratz (* 1962 in Schnellbach ) is a German artist.

Life

Harald Reiner Gratz was born in Schnellbach in Thuringia in 1962. In 1981 he passed the Abitur in Schmalkalden. From 1985 to 1988 he studied at the HfKD Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, in 1989 he studied painting and graphics at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with Professors Hubertus Giebe and Werner Liebmann , which he graduated with a diploma in 1991. In 1996 he was a guest artist at the Villa Romana in Florence, in 1997 he was nominated by the State of Thuringia for the final selection of the competition for the Villa-Massimo Prize. In 2000 he worked in his own studio in New York. In 2005 a comprehensive catalog of works was created. In 2006, Gratz designed the DKB Berlin and the Werragas building in Bad Salzungen. In 2007 he designed art concepts for the Olympic Village in Berlin and the Schmalkalden district hospital and was curator of the Brandenburg Art Summer in the Liebenberg Palace and Museum.

Scholarships and Awards

  • 1995: Scholarship from the State of Thuringia and the Foundation Kulturfonds EV: Freiraum 2000
  • 1997: Catalog grant from the Ministry of Science and Art of the State of Thuringia
  • 1997: Winner of the competition "12 Artists for Weimar 99, European City of Culture"
  • 1997: Nomination of the State of Thuringia for the final selection of the Villa Massimo Prize
  • 2002: Working grant from the Berlin Cultural Fund Foundation

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1997: The Oresty of Friedrich Hölderlin. Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen
  • 2000: Home of the Brave, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt
  • 2001: Home of the Brave. Vonderau Museum, Fulda
  • 2002: faults. Philippsruhe Castle Museum, Hanau
  • 2002: faults. Museum of Young Art, Frankfurt / Oder
  • 2002: Harald R. Gratz Pictures. Representation of the Free State of Thuringia, Berlin
  • 2003: faults. City Museum, Jena
  • 2005: Thuringian State Museum, Rudolstadt
  • 2005: works on paper. Künstlerhaus, Würzburg
  • 2006: Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2008: Penthesilea. New Museum Weimar (catalog)
  • 2009: Penthesilea. New Museum, Weimar
  • 2009: Penthesilea. Theater Museum Schloss Wahn, Cologne
  • 2009: Trojans and other incidents. Rothamel Gallery, Erfurt
  • 2009: New pictures. Representation of the state of Thuringia to the EU, Brussels
  • 2012: player. New Museum, Weimar
  • 2015: fairy tales. Rothamel Gallery, Erfurt

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 2006: Pictures of men 1945-2005. Museum of Young Art Frankfurt / Oder
  • 2010: new acquisitions. Art collector Jena
  • 2010: new acquisitions. Museum of Young Art, Frankfurt on the Oder
  • 2011: Oswald von Wolkenstein in Art. Art Center "Tubla da Nives", Wolkenstein, Italy
  • 2011: Squatting. Angermuseum, Erfurt
  • 2011: D 206 views. New Museum, Weimar
  • 2012: 10 years Kunsthalle Arnstadt
  • 2017: The fight. Rothamel Gallery, Frankfurt 

Literature (selection)

  • Harald Reiner Gratz, Kai Uwe Schierz (ed.): Pictures to history . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018. ISBN 978-3-95462-942-8 .
  • Göbel, Jens; Leisner, Beatrix (Ed.): Harald Reiner Gratz, InSicht: Retrospective of the works on paper, catalog for the exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, from July 13th to September 7th, 2014, Apolda: Kunsthaus 2014.
  • Bestgen, Ulrike; Wolfgang Holler (Ed.): Player. Harald Reiner Gratz observes Thomas Thieme, catalog for the exhibition of the same name by the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar, Neues Museum Weimar, February 12 to April 15, 2012, Bielefeld and Berlin: Kerber 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-671-4
  • Henkel, Jens; Schierz, Kai-Uwe (Red.): Harald Reiner Gratz, catalog for the exhibitions, published by the Thuringian State Museum, Heidecksburg Rudolstadt and the Kunsthalle Erfurt, Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg Rudolstadt 2005, ISBN 978-3-910013-60-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Reiner Gratz . In: Arnstadt Art Gallery . June 22, 2011 ( kunsthalle-arnstadt.de [accessed March 17, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Vita | GALLERY ROTHAMEL. Retrieved on March 17, 2017 (German).
  3. ^ ArtFacts.net: Harald Reiner Gratz. Retrieved March 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Gratz, Harald Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Schnellbach